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Turkey, Drugs, Faustian Alliances & Sibel Edmonds
by John Stanton
www.dissidentvoice.org
June 29, 2004
Taking Turkey as the focal point and with a start date of 1998,
it is easy to speculate why Sibel Edmonds indicated that there
was a convergence of US and foreign counter-narcotics,
counter-terrorism and US national security and economic
interests all of which were too preoccupied to surface critical
information warning Americans of the attacks of September 11,
2001. After all, who would have believed drug runners operating
in Central Asia? And besides, President Clinton was promoting
Turkey, one of the world’s top drug transit points, as a model
for Muslim-Western cooperation and a country necessary to
reshape the Middle East.
The FBI’s Office of International Operations, in conjunction
with the CIA and the US State Department counter-narcotics
section, the United Kingdom’s MI6, Israel’s Mossad, Pakistan’s
ISI, the US DEA, Turkey’s MIT, and the governments and
intelligence agencies of dozens of nations, were in one way or
another involved in the illicit drug trade either trying to stop
it or benefit from it. What can be surmised from the public
record is that from 1998 to September 10, 2001, the War on Drugs
kept bumping into the nascent War on Terror and new directions
in US foreign policy.
...
In 1998, the US Department of State (DOS) was finally forced to
admit that Turkey was a major refining and transit point for the
flow of heroin from Southwest Asia to Western Europe, with small
quantities of the stuff finding its way to the streets of the
USA. In that same year, Kendal Nezan, writing for Le Monde
Diplomatique, reported that MIT, and the Turkish National Police
force were actively supporting the trade in illicit drugs not
only for fun and profit, but out of desperation.
"After the Gulf War in 1991, Turkey found itself deprived of the
all-important Iraqi market and, since it lacked significant oil
reserves of its own, it decided to make up for the loss by
turning more massively to drugs. The trafficking increased in
intensity with the arrival of the hawks in power, after the
death in suspicious circumstances of President Turgut Özal in
April 1993. According to the minister of interior, the war in
Kurdistan had cost the Turkish exchequer upwards of $12.5
billion. According to the daily Hürriyet, Turkey’s heroin
trafficking brought in $25 billion in 1995 and $37.5 billion in
1996...Only criminal networks working in close cooperation with
the police and the army could possibly organize trafficking on
such a scale. Drug barons have stated publicly, on Turkish
television and in the West, that they have been working under
the protection of the Turkish government and to its financial
benefit. The traffickers themselves travel on diplomatic
passports... the drugs are even transported by military
helicopter from the Iranian border."
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June04/Stanton0629.htm